| 1. | Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum it probably was conscious that Mrs. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 2. | Each had enough decorum to suspend further hostilities Heathcliff placed his fists, out of temptation, in his pockets Mrs. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | His marital breast is the repository of secrets which decorum is reluctant to adduce. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | He stood a little behind the governor and held himself with military decorum through the service, meditating on a great variety of subjects. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | "A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |